W2K Pro Installation After Removing XP Pro...Any Tricks?

[skeetre]

Hello,

My company recently got a new PC that came with WinXP Pro instead of W2K Pro, which is what we wanted. So I've the W2K Pro disks and I'm ready to install it fresh. But before I format the HD, I'm wondering if there is anything I should do differently or something of which I should be especially aware. Having extremely limited experience with both XP and W2K (always done W9x PCs) I want to be sure that this doesn't go badly. I'll appreciate thoughts and comments from you more experienced users.

Thanks.

Brian

 

[olekingcole]

From my limited experience, low level formatting is best, but if your network administrator settings are nominal and all drivers are up to date, it should work fine.

2cents,
olekingcole
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[echoecho]

That is the norm now, getting XP and you want Win2k. Personally, we use ghost images of our corporate pc's along with sysprep. No problems. The only thing I would be sure of is drivers, make sure you have them if you need them.

 

[Kuria]

XP is reputed to also have some residents in the Boot sector that might stop you from installing win2K even with formatting. Do FDISK with the MBR option to clear the Master Boot Record. surrounding yourself with dwarfs does not make you a giant.

 

[skeetre]

Thank you to olekingcole, kuria and echoecho for your suggestions. The conversion went fine once I realized that the W2K CD actually worked as a boot disk, too. (It's always the simple things that get me!) So far there are no issues whatsoever, but, it's been up and running for less than a week so there is plenty of time for that. Thanks again for the helpful comments and suggestions.

Brian S.